Carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain between 1885 and 1957
Carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain between 1885 and 1957
John Potvin is Professor of Art History at Concordia University, Montreal
Inhaltsangabe
1. Men of a different sort: the seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor Part I: Wilde spaces 2. 'God save the Queen': Lord Gower, idolatry and the cult of the bric-à-brac diva 3. Vale(d) decadence: Charles Ricketts, Charles Shannon and the Wilde factor Part II: Country living 4. Askesis and the Greek Ideal: Edward Perry Warren and Lewes House 5. Of art and irises: Cedric Morris, Arthur Lett-Haines and the decorative ideal Part III: Stage design for living 6. Coward in the room: interwar glamour and the performances of a queer modernity 7. Cecil Beaton: artifice as resistance 8. Conclusion: manifesto for a queer home of one's own Bibliography Index
1. Men of a different sort: the seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor Part I: Wilde spaces 2. 'God save the Queen': Lord Gower, idolatry and the cult of the bric-à-brac diva 3. Vale(d) decadence: Charles Ricketts, Charles Shannon and the Wilde factor Part II: Country living 4. Askesis and the Greek Ideal: Edward Perry Warren and Lewes House 5. Of art and irises: Cedric Morris, Arthur Lett-Haines and the decorative ideal Part III: Stage design for living 6. Coward in the room: interwar glamour and the performances of a queer modernity 7. Cecil Beaton: artifice as resistance 8. Conclusion: manifesto for a queer home of one's own Bibliography Index
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